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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

FREE Workshop at Northern Kentucky University

Security in the Archives Workshop
at Northern Kentucky University

Northern Kentucky University was awarded a National Endowment for the
Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant for a security assessment of
the W. Frank Steely Library's Special Collections and Archives.
Additionally, the award included funding for a workshop on security for
archival collections.

What: This half-day workshop will introduce participants to some of the
tools and techniques that can help protect archives, libraries and
other cultural resource institutions from theft and mutilation of their
holdings. The workshop will examine the nature of the problem - the big
business of theft of historical materials, what is at particular risk,
who the thieves are and how we can identify them - and will explore the
problem of insider theft. Participants will learn about the management
of researchers in reading rooms and of visitors to historic sites, and
will be introduced to methods of collection management to enhance the
protection of collections. The workshop will also address the steps
that should be taken in the aftermath of a theft.

Who should attend: Archivists, librarians, curators, and any staff of
libraries, special collections, archives, historic houses and historical
societies and museums.